You’re not supporting a developer doing this, you’re inflating sales expectations for EA and its shareholders which in turn puts more pressure on the developers and ends up to them shutting down if they don’t sell far more than they ever sold before.

You can’t trust them Silver Kraids. Now, the platinum ones? Their words are as good as gold.

Going by your logic, we should ignore anything the GOP does wrong. since there are starving children in third world countries.

You do realize these companies are literally patenting ways to manipulate people who ordinarily would have restraint into succumbing to gambling addiction, right?

She thoroughly answered the question.

You’ve officially cemented yourself as my favorite author on Kotaku since that last loot box article and this one makes me love you more.

Yeah I was actually super disappointed with the character creation tool. The detail modification was nice, but it got so much of the basics wrong. I actually refunded the game because of it. Which sounds ridiculous, but when the hype of the entire game is the creation tool and it doesn’t even do the basics right,…

Bows were super satisfying to use after every fps started to feel the same with the myriad assault rifles. That’s pretty much the reason, really.

Creation Club is basically the same thing though.

So far the reviews seem to be pointing that if nothing else it’s thoroughly enjoyable, and honestly that’s what I was expecting (in a good way). Kind of excited to pick this up when I get the Switch back.

I mean technically Torchlight 2 was the Diablo 3 they tried to make. They released at around the same time and were considered competitors for a good while.

Off topic, but this was the first thing I thought of when I saw the description of the header image.

“Perfect World Entertainment recently closed the Seattle office of Runic Games as part of the company’s continued strategy to focus on online games as a service.”

If it makes you feel better (I mean, I guess it won’t) I’m more than sure that no amount of sales from Hob would have saved the studio. Perfect World explicitly said that they shut them down because they wanted to go for the “games as service” deal just like all the other industry big shots. This was all on the…

W... WHAT POWER! INCONCEIVABLEEEEEEEEEE!

You know the scary part of this post? For a while I actually couldn’t tell if you were serious.

Please don’t phrase it like it’s a good thing...

This, exactly. Especially now that most open world games take place in rural hills and such without many distinct buildings, it’s nearly impossible for me to tell where I am at all.

I... Actually hate this. I’m one of the few people who actually pretty much need a minimap to get my bearings, especially in modern open world games where a lot of the areas are just nondescript mountains and stuff. I mean, yeah, there’s the actual map function which I’m sure isn’t going away any time soon, but I hate…

And to think we laughed at this.